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Index of subjects

agriculture Bayt al-Dawlah (British Political Agency)
debate on 120 64–5, 123
decline of 21, 217–18 bidun 4
and land regime before the reforms 212 British India Steam Navigation Company
‘Arab 29, 154 100, 106, 169
Arab Nationalism 120, see also al-Ha’yah British informal empire 1, 8, 10
and Pan-Arabism in Bahrain 113–14
and land policies 210–11 and British Indian law 28, 125
mobilisation in Manama 147–8 in the Gulf 5, 50
and rural society 218 rhetoric of 120
al-‘arish British Overseas Airways Corporation
al-bahrani 35 (BOAC) 50, 132, 196
al-manami 35 British Political Agency see Bayt al-
al-‘asabiyyah see tribalism Dawlah
‘ashura’, 23, 91, 101, 106, 107, 164, see also British Political Residency (Bushehr) see
ma’tam and Muharram rituals Residency, British (Bushehr)
divisions between Arabs and Persians 165
and ma’tams 38, 97, 107 Civil List 114
parades 165, 166 clubs 177–8
awqaf ja‘fariyyah the Arab Club (Nadi al-‘Urubah)
control by the clergy 23–4 177–8, 179
awqaf al-sunnah 90 the Bahrain Club (Nadi al-Bahrayn)
a‘yan see merchants in Manama: notables 177–8, 179
Firdawsi 187
Bahrain 5, 6, 119 and football 178
administration 3
as a frontier society 9, 16 Dar al-Hukumah 28, 33, 38, 39, 70,
Islands of 2, 8–9 77, 153
as the ‘Islands of Paradise’ 22, 29, 218
Bahrain National Congress 158 East India Companies 45
Bahrain Order-in-Council Dutch 45
of 1913 113–14, 115, 116 English 44, 49–57
of 1952 209 Egyptian Gazette 227
Bahrain Petroleum Company see BAPCO Egyptian Revolution (1952) 120, 174, 182
al-baladiyyah see Municipality (Manama) extraterritorial jurisdiction 28, 72,
BAPCO (Bahrain Petroleum Company) 156, 159
132, 169, 172, 179, 191, 200–1 and 1861 Treaty 122–3
barastis 36, 72, 90, 92, 103, 192, 193, application of 121–3
198, 200 and establishment of native agency
dwellers 130–1, 155 court 80
al-barriyyah 93, 94 transfer of 209

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